new rant from me about how boosters asking critics to admit that AI is “useful” is not the win they think it is vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcBCji6XvE audio: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/94cb1cda/useful-is-nothing

here’s my beat for beat commentary on the WWDC25 event icyi. https://bsky.app/profile/fasterandworse.com/post/3lr6tm62rpc2h

David pulled it all together perfectly here. It’s amazing how well it fits the hook model, whether they intended it or not

New webbed brief from Heydon

https://briefs.video/videos/introducing-webbed-sites/

out of curiosity once I tried to ask it to make a colouring picture from a photo of a toy for my kids and it just ran what seemed like imagemagick filters over the photo to convert to black and white and pump up contrast to only show the hard lines - just like all the free convert to outline web tools that have existed forever. I asked it to try again but without the filters, instead to identify the object, and to draw it in a colouring book outline style, and it spat out some shitty stylised mishmash derived from all the illustration IP it stole and ingested. I still feel guilty for trying even that

My current hyperfixation is Ecosia, maker of “the greenest search engine” (already problematic) implementing a wrapped-chatgpt chat bot and saying it has a “green mode” which is not some kind of solar-powered, ethically-sound, generative AI, but rather an instructive prompt to only give answers relating to sustainable business models etc etc.

See my thread here https://xcancel.com/fasterandworse/status/1837831731577000320

I’m starting to reach out to them wherever I can because for some reason this one is keeping me up at night.

it’s also kind of fucking stupid to post an opinion like this on the fediverse of all places

this is the best mic drop savagery I’ve read in a while. There is no coming back from it.